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Real TV to broadcast footage of UGA and other 'party schools'

Posted: Saturday, November 06, 1999

By From Staff Reports

An upcoming TV show exposing the after-hours habits of the nation's college students will air a clip of a University of Georgia student guzzling beer at a fraternity party while being held upside down by chanting friends.

The Real TV coverage comes thanks the University of Georgia's recent top 10 ranking among the nation's ''party schools'' in the year 2000 edition of the Princeton Review. UGA was ranked 10.

Real TV visited three of the top 10 party schools to get ''an inside look at how the campuses achieved their fame,'' according to a news release from the program.

Other footage includes Michigan State students burning and trashing a neighborhood last spring and UCLA students dancing in a sea of soap bubbles.

The show, part of Real TV's ''Animal Week,'' will be broadcast in this area at 11 a.m. Tuesday on Atlanta's WUPA-TV (channel 69; 13 on InterMedia cable) and 7 p.m. Tuesday on WHOT-TV (channel 34, 10 on InterMedia cable), publicist Eric Alonsa said.

Other Real TV shows during the week will feature real-life backyard wrestling, student drug parties and the wild life of Key West, Fla.

The segment on the UGA party shows a student being held upside down over a keg of beer by ''rooting'' friends, Alonsa said. The keg-stand footage, sent in by someone on campus, doesn't indicate which fraternity hosted the party or where it was held, he said.

''It was all in good fun,'' he said. At Michigan State, however, where students hit the streets burning and vandalizing after losing a basketball game, Alonsa said the behavior displayed on tape is ''pretty bad.''

The Princeton Review party school rankings, from 1 through 10, are Florida State University; the University of Florida; Michigan State; Seton Hall; the University of Mississippi; University of Montana; University of Alabama; Sonoma State University; Washington State University; and UGA.